Definition of Helix aspersa

1. Noun. Serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.

Exact synonyms: Brown Snail
Group relationships: Genus Helix, Helix
Generic synonyms: Garden Snail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Helix Aspersa

Helicteres isora
Helie
Helie's bundle
Heliobacter
Heliobacter pylori
Heliopolis
Helios
Heliothis
Heliothis zia
Heliozoa
Heliozoea
Helipterum
Helipterum manglesii
Helisoma trivolvis
Helix aspersa (current term)
Helix hortensis
Helix pomatia
Helkesaite
Helkesaites
Hell
Hell's Half Acre
Hell's Kitchen
Hell Week
Hell hole
Hell holes
Hell no
Hella
Helladic
Helladic civilisation

Literary usage of Helix aspersa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"... The immediate neighbourhood of the sea appears frequently to have the effect of dwarfing land Mollusca. Thus the var. conoidea of Helix aspersa, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1856)
"Second Experiment with Helix aspersa. A pair of Helix aspersa having been procured in the act of copulation on the 19th of May 1852, they were placed in ..."

3. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"Helix aspersa, the shell and entire animal removed from the shell . . . . . .71 ,, 17. Dissection of Helix aspersa .... 75 ,, 18. Nervous systems of Helix ..."

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